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They were securities in some of the best and soundest companies, and they are worth an enormous sum of money!" Ida stared at him, as if she did not realise the significance of his words. "An enormous sum of money," he repeated. "All the while God forgive me!
It was remarkable for its appropriate expression, its sound sense, and the deliberation and ease that marked the utterance of his feelings. There was no repetition or useless phraseology or flattery, and it was admitted by all who heard him to be the soundest and neatest speech of the night. This was in Ceylon.
I then awoke, and behold it was a dream. This vision perplexed me for many days, and when the news came that the King of France was beheaded by the hands of his people, I received, as it were, a token in confirmation of the vision that had been disclosed to me in my sleep, and I preached a discourse on the same, and against the French Revolution, that was thought one of the greatest and soundest sermons that I had ever delivered in my pulpit.
Ireland has hers, and having regard to her present comparative poverty, let them be supplied "not grudgingly or of necessity," but by the Chancellor of the Exchequer "as a cheerful giver." This is the constitutional principle under the Act of Union, and the soundest financial principle to observe for the United Kingdom.
For my part I have always been one of the soundest of sleepers, and it is rare for anything less than a hand upon my shoulder to arouse me. And yet I was aroused that night, or rather in the early grey of the morning. It was just half-past four by my chronometer when something caused me to sit up in my berth wide awake and with every nerve tingling.
Once in bed, he continued to hold her hand. "You won't shut the door any more than that, will you? Are you going to be long, Mum?" "I must go down and play to Daddy." "Oh! well, I shall hear you." "I hope not; you must go to sleep." "I can sleep any night." "Well, this is just a night like any other." "Oh! no it's extra special." "On extra special nights one always sleeps soundest."
Put all these symbols of antiquity before the eyes of a man of the soundest sense, who has never heard speak of them, he will not understand anything: it is a language to be learned. The old theological poets were in the necessity of giving God eyes, hands, feet; of announcing Him in the form of a man. St.
The royalists called the men who clamored for civil and religious liberty fanatics, just as the monopolists of to-day, who control the dominant parties, call men who cry out against their oppression fanatics. It is sometimes difficult to distinguish the instinct of fanaticism from the soundest judgment, for fanaticism is sometimes the keenest sagacity.
The soundest maxims of public policy and the principals upon which our republican institutions are founded recommend a proper adaptation of the revenue to the expenditure, and they also require that the expenditure shall be limited to what, by an economical administration, shall be consistent with the simplicity of the Government and necessary to an efficient public service.
Both sides were hard at it, and the Irishmen on the roof, rewarded at last for their long vigil, were yelling encouragement promiscuously and whooping with the unfettered ecstasy of men who are getting the treat of their lives without having paid a penny for it. The behavior of the New York policeman in affairs of this kind is based on principles of the soundest practical wisdom.
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